Libertarians and Conservatives of all flavours reply:
Suppose the free market allocates resources efficiently;
Suppose to aid the stabilization of markets (unlike housing and land, where misuse from speculation can go to more waste than the speculation often guarantees stability, say), I play the markets, and over time due to my keen eye and years of oddball (but pragmatic) wisdom I amass a fortune and start a company that sells something useful to a great deal many people. Suppose this company makes millions of people's lives a better life, and I am made very wealthy.
Suppose then that I purchase thermonuclear weapons and kill everybody, effectively destroying the market entirely.
Is there a contradiction here? Did I just allocate the market into oblivion? I acted towards my desires(irrational?),
and nuked the whole planet including the market into the pleistocene age. Given some any sort of depression or mental instability, don't you think that this outcome is actually likely?
......or for an AI, how can we be sure THEY don't get depressed and nuke everything that exists?
meirionwen is out with her family...I miss her already :(
Suppose to aid the stabilization of markets (unlike housing and land, where misuse from speculation can go to more waste than the speculation often guarantees stability, say), I play the markets, and over time due to my keen eye and years of oddball (but pragmatic) wisdom I amass a fortune and start a company that sells something useful to a great deal many people. Suppose this company makes millions of people's lives a better life, and I am made very wealthy.
Suppose then that I purchase thermonuclear weapons and kill everybody, effectively destroying the market entirely.
Is there a contradiction here? Did I just allocate the market into oblivion? I acted towards my desires(irrational?),
and nuked the whole planet including the market into the pleistocene age. Given some any sort of depression or mental instability, don't you think that this outcome is actually likely?
......or for an AI, how can we be sure THEY don't get depressed and nuke everything that exists?
meirionwen is out with her family...I miss her already :(